In my quest towards better food management I aiming towards 5% waste as opposed to about 30%. I have been keeping better track this month than ever before. Today was leftovers for dinner, sort of.

There was enough spaghetti left over for Rose, but no hamburger. Tobias had a plate from the other day that has both spaghetti and hamburger on it (I guess his growth spurt is over). So I made fresh hamburger for Rose to have on her spaghetti, but made the entire package.

Then I had leftover hamburger, so I made 7 ounces of rice for me, as I know that is how much I can eat and have nothing left over. There was enough leftover sauce that I added it and the hamburger to the rice and that was my dinner along with green beans, a tangerine, and the last piece of bread from the batch I made last night, smeared with garlic butter.

Number of leftovers currently in my fridge: 0. Yay, me. It didn't even feel like I was eating leftovers. Okay, well, technically I wasn't except the sauce, but the kids were and didn't feel like they were eating leftovers.

So day one of the new year and food management is currently under control.